Yeah, looking forward to it.
I mean nothing is confirmed yet but that certainly seems to be the case.
Cool, I would love if they would support the game with a new storyline that lasts for a couple of years.
I don’t think he is referring to narrative play, but end game content. Alliance raids, savages, hard mode dungeons, etc. add more challenge into the game so you don’t just zone out running roulettes.
It almost too easy. You earn triple XP and skip many areas entirely. It's actually why I didn't bother continuing. The early areas are devoid of life and reason to engage.
Leveling up is completely brain-dead easy and takes for-fucking ever, unless they changed something in the last 2 years or so since I played. I lost interest well before reaching max level.
The MQ of the base game is tedious af, you just power through it. It gets way better with Heavrnsward.
We don't know for sure yet
IMO, yes. But some people will tell you the mountain of shit is the best part lmao.
Yes. The first part of the story lvl 1 - 50 is a slog. But you get levels fast. Story doesn't get good till the first expansion.
I finally got sick of this game somewhere in the Shadowbringers storyline and I don't think the story ever at any point "got good"
Game used to be engaging when HW launched but after all the streamlining beginning with Stormblood the fun indeed never begins because the game doesn't allow you to have fun. I think it's good YoshiP has acknowledged that his game is boring and changes are required for player retention.
Same with dawn trail for me but I first have to finish the current expansion.
XIV's problem is no world building and everything is instanced content. Nothing connects to anything. It is literally a theme park where you get in line to ride the rides but after you ride each attraction you go home and come back next year when they have new rides to get in line for. Just UGH.
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Other then Savage tier content the game is super easy. They've really dumbed down the game you only have Super Easy or Super Hard stuff. No middleground to give incentive to do the hard stuff. And the rewards are garbage per usual. And the hard stuff amounts to knowing where to stand and when to press button in a Dance Dance Revolution Simon Says kind of combat loop. Most if not all bosses are scripted and have no deviation. And mistakes generally just take 80% of your health. I don't think gear ever really mattered. Just ilvl.
Hogwarts Legacy is such a great game. Such a treat to play.
I still have the Faust striking dummy set up outside my FC house because of that moment in time.
Faust was serious business back in the day. Probably not ever going to have another Faust in XIV ever again.I still have the Faust striking dummy set up outside my FC house because of that moment in time.
I'm still serious business now.
These bingo sessions can get very insane!!!!
Ah, two fellow FFXI chads, I see. Difficulty and the world being extremely harsh to players was part of what gave prime FFXI its charm, so I agree with YoshiP in that aspect. I did not care for theme park instanced gear treadmill gameplay as he designed it for FFXIV though, and I think he's one of the most overrated game directors of all time. He just copied WoW, threw FF memberberries at it, and called it a day. He did it effectively, but that's all he did. He's an expert at copying and refining others, but not a visionary like the FFXI devs were. Hell, I think FFXIV itself could have been awesome if they refined some of the obtuse pre-ARR shit and found a way to make it work. Most of my fun with FFXIV was due to finding a great raid party full of likeminded guys that made the game fun, just like any multiplayer game where you're lucky enough to find people on your wavelength.XIV's problem is no world building and everything is instanced content. Nothing connects to anything. It is literally a theme park where you get in line to ride the rides but after you ride each attraction you go home and come back next year when they have new rides to get in line for. Just UGH.
The sense of Terror or of Danger is present early on in XI if you start in Windurst with the Horutoto ruins where in the Outer Section you have low level enemies but venturing deeper you have max level enemies that represent ancient undead that you have to sneak by to progress a quest. And all these dungeons are connected with the game world. So COOL. No such thing in XIV.
I think instanced content works when done right like Monster Hunter, the recent Granblue Relink or the ancient Vindictus but for XIV it gets stale fast if the formula stays the same expansion after expansion. Yoshi P Cultists will be quick to defend their Elden Lord at the mere mention of FFXI or WoW usually spouting rhetoric that XIV is better then WoW or that FFXI and FFXIV are two different games and what have you with no actual argument to support their claims on how better it actually is.
I stopped playing XIV at 6.2? I feel like I can just bypass the gated content at expansion launch and I'm only really interested in the new classes which I imagine will only feasibly hold my interest for 20 minutes tops.
uhmm world building is one of thing that people praise for the game. it is stuff tied to lore. i think you mean the gameplay interaction or experience in the open world/overworld?XIV's problem is no world building and everything is instanced content. Nothing connects to anything. It is literally a theme park where you get in line to ride the rides but after you ride each attraction you go home and come back next year when they have new rides to get in line for. Just UGH.
The sense of Terror or of Danger is present early on in XI if you start in Windurst with the Horutoto ruins where in the Outer Section you have low level enemies but venturing deeper you have max level enemies that represent ancient undead that you have to sneak by to progress a quest. And all these dungeons are connected with the game world. So COOL. No such thing in XIV.
I think instanced content works when done right like Monster Hunter, the recent Granblue Relink or the ancient Vindictus but for XIV it gets stale fast if the formula stays the same expansion after expansion. Yoshi P Cultists will be quick to defend their Elden Lord at the mere mention of FFXI or WoW usually spouting rhetoric that XIV is better then WoW or that FFXI and FFXIV are two different games and what have you with no actual argument to support their claims on how better it actually is.
I stopped playing XIV at 6.2? I feel like I can just bypass the gated content at expansion launch and I'm only really interested in the new classes which I imagine will only feasibly hold my interest for 20 minutes tops.
Most days I just want ff11 online remastered with better visuals and a few quality of life changes. The current version of the game is abysmal and private servers just don’t do it for me.
XI is a better game when played at its peak era. I have friends from that game I still talk to online frequently that I never met IRL.
Always will be subjective.
I’ve never understood why in a mmo people are so in the mindset that the final destination is all that matters, and not the journey.
Most MMOs today aren't MMOs then. They are mostly Online Single player RPGs. With the exception of instanced dungeon/raid content. The closest you can reasonably get in XIV is probably Blue Mage(Blue Mage in XI is superior anyway) which most shit on since it's blocked from 70% of the game.
